Artist: Alan Davie (1920 - )
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Alan Davie served in the British army and worked as jazz musician before taking up a career in the arts. He was inspired by a trip across Europe from 1948 to 1949 during which he encountered the work of Jackson Pollock and other Abstract-Expressionist painters. He was one of the British artists to adopt the movement, but Davie also found other influences in African sculpture and Zen Buddhism. His international reputation was founded in the 1960’s and continues to date.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Alan Davie untitled, plate on p. 24 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]) color lithograph 1964
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Alan Davie untitled, plate on p. 25 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]) color lithograph 1964
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Alan Davie untitled, plate on inside front cover-p. 1 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]) color lithograph 1964
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Alan Davie - Big Solid Sender 1964 oil on canvas Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma English
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Alan Parker Triglyph drawing: pen and ink 1961
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Alan Parker Cadenza #629 drawing 1956
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Alan Parker Cubistic Abstraction drawing: pen, ink and watercolor 1958
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Alan Magee Ceremony of Innocence Color lithograph 1984
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Alan Evan Feltus The Window color etching 1981
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Alan Magee Ghost watercolor and graphite on white wove paper 1980
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Alan Crane Guanajuato Street Lithograph 20th century
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Ed Farrell-Sales Manager, Cicero, Ill., Alan Metnick  (Artist), 1970, Gelatin-silver print
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Alan Shields Shield color lithograph and screenprint with embossing, flocking, 1974
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Leonard Baskin Alan Odle, thirty-first plate in the book, Icones librorum artifices ([Leeds, Mass.]: Gehenna Press, 1988) color etching 1988
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On Wings Over, Alan Saret (United States, New York, New York City, born 1944) , 1986, Bronze
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Sans Titre (1985) by REYNOLDS Alan
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structure 78 (1978) by REYNOLDS Alan
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structure 78 (b) (1978) by REYNOLDS Alan
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Structure 78 (d) (1978) by REYNOLDS Alan
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structure 78 (a) (1978) by REYNOLDS Alan
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Triangle Rock, Evening Clouds, Alabama Hills, Alan Ross (United States, born 1948) , 1984, Gelatin-silver print
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Reproduced by courtesy of Ian McKeever and the Alan Cristea Gallery, London ; Ian McKeever,
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Jackson Lake, Clouds, Grand Teton National Park, Alan Ross (United States, born 1948) , 1975, Gelatin-silver print
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Lavender Echelons Kingdom Ensoulment, Alan Saret (United States, New York, New York City, born 1944) , 1970, Colored pencil on paper
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Jackson Lake, Clouds, Grand Teton National Park, Alan Ross (United States, born 1948) , 1975, Gelatin-silver print
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Togetherness II, Alan Rath (United States, born 1959)  (Artist), 1995, Video installation: video digital chip, electronics, cathode-ray tubes, steel, wood, aluminum
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Costume Sketch of Peter O’Toole as Alan Swann in the MGM Film ’My Favorite Year’ with Swatch, May Routh (Great Britain, born 1934) , 1981, Gouache with fabric swatch
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Alan Beeton - Posing c. 1929 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Alan Beeton - Reposing c. 1929 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled (Aquatint Test #4) 20th century
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled (Aquatint Test #2) 20th century
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled (Aquatint Test #3) 20th century
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled (Aquatint Test #1) 20th century
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled (Aquatint Test #5) 20th century
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© Joe Novak ; Joe Novak, American, Born in 1930 Pentimento 1996 Acrylic on paper
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Modular study (1983) by REYNOLDS Alan
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Rackstraw Downes Working proof 1 for Untitled (Street 2), unpublished Etching 1986
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Rackstraw Downes Latham Square Softground etching 1984
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled drawing (blue aquatint) Drawing in colored pencil and watercolor 1986
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Rackstraw Downes Working proof 2 for Untitled (cut out), unpublished Reverse soft ground etching 1986
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Rackstraw Downes Working proof 1 for Untitled (cut out), unpublished Reverse soft ground etching 1986
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Alan Fenton - Transitional Cape 1974 synthetic polymer: a Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Marked by Nicholas Sprimont, 1716-1770 Stand for a Tureen London, England England, (London), 1745 Silver
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled drawing (soft ground) Drawing in colored pencil and watercolor on recto and verso 1986
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Rackstraw Downes Working proof 1 for Untitled (Street 1), unpublished Reverse etching and soft ground etching 1986
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled drawing (yellow) Drawing in colored pencil and watercolor with graphite markings on verso 1986
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Rackstraw Downes Working proof 2 for Untitled (Building Test), unpublished Reverse etching and soft ground etching and aquatint 1986
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Rackstraw Downes Working proof 1 for Untitled (Building Test), unpublished Reverse etching and soft ground etching and aquatint 1986
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© Alan Bowness, the Hepworth Estate ; Barbara Hepworth, British, 1903-1975 Rock Form (Porthcurno) 1964
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Rackstraw Downes Irving Trust, College of Insurance and a Flight into Newark Color aquatint and softground etching 1986
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Marie Santana Stirrup-spouted jug with jaguars terracotta circa 180 BC - 40 BC
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Marie Santana Stirrup-spouted jug with mythological animal terracotta circa 60
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Bernard Chaet Pears watercolor over graphite 1986
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Oil No. 9, Raymond Jonson (1891 - 1982) , 1942, Oil on canvas
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Alan Goldfarb, Born in 1959 Claw beaker: "That"s a spicy Meatball" United States, Vermont, (Burlington),
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Plate, Royal Porcelain Manufactory (France, died N/A) , 1808, Porcelain
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Marine Abstraction, Will Henry Stevens (1881 - 1949) , 1944, Oil on board
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Artist: artist unknown Title: Funerary Model of a Pig Sty Date: 2nd century B.C. Medium:
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Double Circle, Charles Houghton Howard (1899 - 1978) , 1950, Oil on canvas
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Untitled, Seymour Lipton (United States, New York, 1903 - 1986) , Pencil

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (8)
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: Alan Davie
Thisexhibition, which celebrates Davie's eightieth birthday, is drawn entirely from the Gallery's unrivalled holding of his work. It features some twenty-five larg...
Center on Contemporary Art: Emotional Rescue: The ContemporaryArtProject Collection
ContemporaryArtProject LLC, founded in August 1999 by curator Linda Farris, collects cutting edge international art toeventually be gifted to museums. In the interim, individual works rotate between members' homes and are available for museum loan...
Young at Art Childrens Museum: Call for Artists: Young At Art Photography Competition
Details: http://www.youngatartmuseum.org AWARDS · Best Overall Entry: $1,000 cash prize · Best Color Print: $100 cash prize · Best Black & White Print: $100 cash prize ...
Young at Art Childrens Museum: Call to Artists: Amateur Adult Photographers Exhibition (Ages 16 - 99)
Details: http://www.youngatartmuseum.org
http://www.youngatartmuseum.org/photocontest.php AWARDS
· Best Overall Entry: $1,000 ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: The Print Show
For over 30 years Cambridge has been a centre of excellence and innovation in printmaking, attracting artists from around the world. Each studio has its own area of expertise - lithography at The Curwen Studio, screenprinting at The Print Studi...
Edinburgh Printmakers: Christmas Exhibition at the UKs Oldest Open-access Print Studio
The exhibition of invited artists ranges from internationally established artists including: John Bellany, Philip Braham, Alan Davie, Liz Douglas, Kate Downie, Paul Furneaux, John Hoyland, Albert Irvin, John Mclean, Eduardo Paolozzi, Gill Tyson an...
Sprengel Museum: Cloudcatcher: Horst Antes and the Shift in Painting during the 1960s
Antes developed his figure in the post-war years, a period in which abstraction had been largely accepted as the international art idiom. While the figurative was being vigorously purged from the picture, Antes worked obsessively...
Woman Made Gallery: Fabrications: Cat Chow, Anne Elizabeth and Jill Ziccardi
Cat Chow is showing three new works from her Mourning Gowns series which is inspired by Victorian mourning/memorial jewelry.  Chow’s work blurs the distinctions between sculpture, fashion and architecture. She manipulates everyday objects into fa...

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